NETRC Accepts 100th Retired RacehorseThe New England Thoroughbred Retirement Center (NETRC) in Deerfield, N.H., has announced the arrival of its 100th retired racehorse, Alex's Hope. A five-year-old Thoroughbred gelding, standing 17 hands tall, Alex's Hope last raced at Penn National Racecourse in Grantville, Pa., on January 12. He is by the 2002 stallion Afleet Alex and out of the Slew o' Gold mare Vikki Slew. Alex's Hope retired after only nine starts as a maiden in 2011 and 2012.

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